Friday, November 30, 2012

Three Little Kittens / Clothes Conversation

These games will help to grow the brains of infants and toddlers. Whether it’s through singing, dancing, cuddling, rocking, talking, smelling, or tasting, you can encourage the brain pathways to make new connections.

Activities for Toddlers

Three Little Kittens﻿

This wonderful poem is great for acting out. Choose someone to be the mother and three children for the kittens.

Three little kittens They lost their mittens And they began to cry, Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear Our mitten we have lost. What! Lost your mittens, You naughty kittens! Then you shall have no pie. Mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. No, you shall have no pie.

The three little kittens They found their mittens, And they began to cry, Oh, mother dear, see here, see here, Our mittens we have found. Put on your mittens, You silly kittens, And you shall have some pie. Purr-r, purr-r, purr-r, Oh, let us have some pie.

~ Author Unknown

Ideas for taking this activity to the next level:

For building confidence – Ask the children, "Have you ever lost something? How did it make you feel?"

For developing the idea – Ask the children, "Where could the kittens look for their mittens? Your hands!"

For moving forward - "Let’s say the poem again. You be the mother and I will be one of the kittens."

If you are in a classroom, say the poem together with all of the children and let them act out the various parts. They love to do the crying parts!

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Clothes Conversation﻿

Show the children three kinds of clothing. For example, a boot, a heavy jacket, and a hat. Try to select articles of clothing that the children wear and are familiar with.

Show one article of clothing at a time and talk about why people wear this kind of clothing.

Make a list with the children of the different kinds of clothes that people wear.

Ideas for taking this activity to the next level:

For building confidence – Ask the children, "Are you wearing any of the clothes that we talked about?"

For developing the idea – Ask the children, "Do you have boots? Where do you wear them?" Ask the same questions about other articles or clothing. If the child is wearing a sweater, then ask about the sweater.

For moving forward - Let’s look together at the magazines and you show me pictures of clothes to wear when it is cold. You can continue looking at magazines for clothes in different seasons, at different times of day, and at different places.

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Jackie Silberg (also known as "Miss Jackie" from her television years) is a highly sought after workshop-seminar leader, motivational speaker, and performer. With degrees in Education and Child Development along with graduate work in Piano and Composition, she can entertain and inform with equal ease.

Jackie has worked with thousands of teachers, parents and children presenting keynote addresses, workshops and seminars and family concerts. She appears throughout the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore and Germany as a speaker, concert artist and talk show guest including appearances on NPR's "Parent's Journal" and "All Things Considered." Activities from her books appear regularly in parenting and early childhood magazines, college texts and journals.